Chromosomes contain genes, and genes determine an organism's characteristics. Sometimes mutations occur in which the sequence of nucleotides within a gene becomes altered. Which of the following describes how a gene mutation would most likely affect an organism?
A.
It would cause the wrong type of nucleic acid to be incorporated into the organism's genes.
B.
It would cause the sugar-phosphate backbone of all of the organism's DNA to be modified.
C.
It would cause different proteins to be produced during translation.
D.
It would cause the codons produced to be more or less than 3 nucletoides in length.